Hobo
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Hobo is a character in the "The Twilight Zone" episode "Five Characters in Search of an Exit," portrayed as a ragged wanderer trapped with others in a mysterious, confined space.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hobo canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9795040 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hobo Context triple: [Five Characters in Search of an Exit, featuresCharacter, Hobo]
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A.
Hobo
Hobo is a municipality in the Huila Department of southern Colombia, known for its proximity to the Betania Dam on the Magdalena River.
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B.
Houbie
Houbie is the main village on the Shetland island of Fetlar in Scotland.
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C.
Hooperman
Hooperman is an American television dramedy series from the late 1980s starring John Ritter as a San Francisco police inspector balancing his personal and professional life.
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D.
Mr. Pitiful
"Mr. Pitiful" is a 1964 soul song by Otis Redding, celebrated for its upbeat groove and Redding’s emotive, powerhouse vocal performance.
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E.
Willie the Weeper
"Willie the Weeper" is a classic early jazz tune, popularized in the 1920s and known for its vivid, drug-themed storytelling and recordings by major jazz artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hobo Target entity description: Hobo is a character in the "The Twilight Zone" episode "Five Characters in Search of an Exit," portrayed as a ragged wanderer trapped with others in a mysterious, confined space.
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A.
Hobo
Hobo is a municipality in the Huila Department of southern Colombia, known for its proximity to the Betania Dam on the Magdalena River.
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B.
Houbie
Houbie is the main village on the Shetland island of Fetlar in Scotland.
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C.
Hooperman
Hooperman is an American television dramedy series from the late 1980s starring John Ritter as a San Francisco police inspector balancing his personal and professional life.
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D.
Mr. Pitiful
"Mr. Pitiful" is a 1964 soul song by Otis Redding, celebrated for its upbeat groove and Redding’s emotive, powerhouse vocal performance.
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E.
Willie the Weeper
"Willie the Weeper" is a classic early jazz tune, popularized in the 1920s and known for its vivid, drug-themed storytelling and recordings by major jazz artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Twilight Zone
ⓘ
linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series)
|
| appearsInEpisode | Five Characters in Search of an Exit ⓘ |
| appearsInFormat | anthology television series episode ⓘ |
| appearsInSeason |
The Twilight Zone season 3
ⓘ
linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series episodes)
|
| associatedWithTheme |
entrapment
ⓘ
existentialism ⓘ identity ⓘ search for meaning ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor |
The Twilight Zone
ⓘ
linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series)
|
| genre |
fantasy
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCostume | ragged clothing ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | one of five trapped characters ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
The Twilight Zone (original series)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series)
|
| portrayedAs | ragged wanderer ⓘ |
| setting | mysterious confined space ⓘ |
| trappedWith |
Bagpiper
ⓘ
Ballerina ⓘ Clown ⓘ Major ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Hobo Description of subject: Hobo is a character in the "The Twilight Zone" episode "Five Characters in Search of an Exit," portrayed as a ragged wanderer trapped with others in a mysterious, confined space.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.